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Fans of Michael Lewis’s 1980s polemic Liar’s Poker will know exactly what’s going on here, as the ClubSwan125 Skorpios powers through the lee of the Volvo 65 Sailing Poland in 35kt of wind at the start of the last Fastnet. To misquote Lewis: ‘a big swinging Maxi’ contest that is only ever going one way
battle with Ino’s local sistership Artie, who followed us closely around the track until we managed to lose them off Pantelleria in the combination of chop and very light winds. At least we took a class win on Ino’s Middle Sea Race swansong. We had held our annual IRC Congress in Malta prior to the
race start, once again showing off the best of IRC with healthy growth in several regions including Australia as we continue to rebuild numbers after the pandemic. Other initiatives include the introduction of a second certificate to make it easier for boats to switch between modes. We discussed the issue of scrutineering in a self-policing
sport. Likewise on sails we gave forewarning that from 2024 to obtain an endorsed IRC certificate all sails should have an IHC certificate. We also revisited the rating advantage of multiple headsails, again with plans to rate the number of headsails from 2024 as we do spinnakers. IRC still remains the most versatile rating system, simple and fair, and again showed its strength in the Middle Sea Race. For 2023 we are adding new inshore IRC regattas including a Caribbean 600 series, plus a two-handed Europeans and an IRC Europeans in the Mediterranean. Finally, congratulations to RORC Yacht of the
Year, Richard Palmer’s Jangada–also our double- handed champion. I’m pleased to add that our committee were also well represented in each of the classes for the 2022 championship!
James Neville Commodore
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he Rolex Middle Sea Race is the first of our three ‘winter’ classics, the other two being the Transat- lantic Race and the Caribbean 600. The experience in Malta this year was a complete
contrast to last year; the organisation was improved by guidance from the RORC, with the
addition of two experienced race organisers in our own Chris Stone and Stefan Kunstmann supplementing some very competent volunteers from the Royal Malta Yacht Club. In addition the weather was light, hot and sunny, again in contrast to last year, and the social programme was enhanced by the return of a magnificent well-attended crew party. This year’s event ended up a big boat race, the French taking
the first two places and our own vice-commodore, Eric de Turckheim, winning on his seventh attempt aboard his Nivelt- Muratet designTeasing Machine, closely followed by the Botín 65 Spirit of Lorina. On Ino we worked hard to hang on to the bigger boats as we battled through the many holes and tran- sitions. But all this effort became futile after we passed Strom- boli, then drifted past the islands along the northeast of Sicily which seemed to suck out all the air, while in front the bigger boats were progressing nicely onwards. We did win our private
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